Uploaded January 2025 | Updated September 2026, 12 hours ago
Please view at 1440p for best bitrate. So the new DJI O4 Air Unit Pro has a mode that no other DJI cameras have (including the Osmo Action 5), which is the equivalent of GoPro's Superview. The camera has a 4:3 sensor so normally when you shoot in 16:9 aspect it just crops off the top and bottom and you lose vertical field of view. In Ultra Wide mode it saves everything from the 4:3 view in a 16:9 aspect ratio, using a non-linear transformation to keep objects in the center of the frame from being too distorted (otherwise a circle would look like squished oval). This gives us an effective greater vertical FOV which brings more ground into view at the bottom of the frame which gives a greater sense of speed. I've always liked this view, especially when combined with in-camera stabilization (which crops the worst of the distortion out of the corners). GoPro has Hyper Smooth, DJI has Rock Steady, and it seems functionally equivalent in this shooting mode.
What I'm actually seeing in my DJI Goggles 3 is 1920x1080 @ 60fps (at up to 60Mbps) with a straight crop (no Super Wide transformation), but that's ok for me. Some people want it to transmit 4:3 and save in Super Wide which should be possible, but DJI hasn't implemented it yet.
As for the aircraft it's an iFlight SH CineLR 7.5in quad. Fast and smooth. Meant for big 6S batteries 4000-8000mAh, but this was flown on an old tired 5S. For this flight the wind was blowing 20+mph and the air was quite rough around the construction equipment and piles. The quad didn't care one bit. Pulls about 25A cruising at maybe 50mph airspeed.
Video is raw, straight out of the camera with zero editing and uploaded to YouTube. It will have cut the bitrate (removing some ground detail) and probably increased the contrast a bit so ground shadows a bit darker than they really are.
Please view at 1440p for best bitrate. So the new DJI O4 Air Unit Pro has a mode that no other DJI cameras have (including the Osmo Action 5), which is the equivalent of GoPro's Superview. The camera has a 4:3 sensor so normally when you shoot in 16:9 aspect it just crops off the top and bottom and you lose vertical field of view. In Ultra Wide mode it saves everything from the 4:3 view in a 16:9 aspect ratio, using a non-linear transformation to keep objects in the center of the frame from being too distorted (otherwise a circle would look like squished oval). This gives us an effective greater vertical FOV which brings more ground into view at the bottom of the frame which gives a greater sense of speed. I've always liked this view, especially when combined with in-camera stabilization (which crops the worst of the distortion out of the corners). GoPro has Hyper Smooth, DJI has Rock Steady, and it seems functionally equivalent in this shooting mode.
What I'm actually seeing in my DJI Goggles 3 is 1920x1080 @ 60fps (at up to 60Mbps) with a straight crop (no Super Wide transformation), but that's ok for me. Some people want it to transmit 4:3 and save in Super Wide which should be possible, but DJI hasn't implemented it yet.
As for the aircraft it's an iFlight SH CineLR 7.5in quad. Fast and smooth. Meant for big 6S batteries 4000-8000mAh, but this was flown on an old tired 5S. For this flight the wind was blowing 20+mph and the air was quite rough around the construction equipment and piles. The quad didn't care one bit. Pulls about 25A cruising at maybe 50mph airspeed.
Video is raw, straight out of the camera with zero editing and uploaded to YouTube. It will have cut the bitrate (removing some ground detail) and probably increased the contrast a bit so ground shadows a bit darker than they really are.
